Ledford beats residency complaint

9:47 PM,
Mar. 24, 2014

John Ledford

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Local elections officials say Democratic sheriff candidate John Ledford lives in Madison County and can run for office.

The three-member Board of Elections made its decision Monday after a daylong hearing on the matter.

A group of county residents filed a complaint alleging Ledford, who was sheriff before Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue appointed him director of the N.C. Alcohol Law Enforcement Agency, lived in Buncombe County, not Madison. ...